Leigha Crout

Leigha Crout is a doctoral researcher at King's College London. She also serves as the inaugural Rule of Law Fellow at the Neukom Center for the Rule of Law at Stanford Law School and as a Research Associate with Oxford University's China, Law and Development Project. Her primary scholarship focuses on constitutional law and theory, international law, human rights and legal reform, with a focus on the People's Republic of China. Previously, she worked as a Senior C.V. Starr Lecturer at Peking University, where she taught transnational legal practice and a seminar on comparative law. Her works have been published in various law journals as well as the popular press, and she has been invited to share her work at Harvard Law School, the Overseas Chinese Women Protection Project, and as a Berger Panelist at Cornell Law School's Berger International Legal Studies Program, among other engagements. Leigha received her Masters in International Development from Cornell University and her J.D. and LL.M. with high honors (magna cum laude) from the University of Notre Dame.

• Constitutional law and theory
• International law
• Human rights
• Law and development
• The People's Republic of China